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  1. Ahnehnois

    Drow Ranger help...

    This article on the WotC website presents a simpler model for doing it.
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    How often have you gamed in the past year?

    Given this past year, I'm guessing some of the people with lower playing numbers are weather-related; I lost quite a few session opportunities to snowstorms during the whole "polar vortex" phenomenon. If there's a real macro-level change, it might be attributable to an aging player base.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simulation vs Game - Where should D&D 5e aim?

    There's an entire 3rd party sourcebook on experts that basically delves into it with the assumption that this is how professions work and fleshes out the implications. Is the skill dumbed down, bizarre, ludicrous? Sure, but it's fantasy. You can get away with those things to a great extent...
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    so much for those toe shoes adverts

    It's unclear though, how the learning process for that works, particularly for people who have been running a different way for a long time. It's also unclear how this interacts with overweight people and people with various other health conditions that may cause problems while running. So while...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simulation vs Game - Where should D&D 5e aim?

    Moreover, they all apply in non-combat situations. If you fall, you use the same hit points you use in combat. The same fort save you roll to resist a lich's paralyzing touch is the one you roll to avoid getting drunk (even before saves were delineated in this way they were still used for combat...
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    read thoughts / telepathy & mindsight feat

    It makes sense, and I don't think the end result is disparate from the RAI for the underlying abilities, nor is it likely to present a balance issue. The two-round waiting period is not such an important thing that forgoing it will break the game.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simulation vs Game - Where should D&D 5e aim?

    While there are indeed many world-building troubles that arise, I can't imagine how they could be unintended. Homebrewing is the heart and soul of the hobby, and at this point, there's no way for the company putting out the rules to be ignorant of the fact that given the choice between using the...
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    read thoughts / telepathy & mindsight feat

    As written, the two abilities are redundant and I see no basis for expediting the read thoughts progression. However, I think it would be an entirely reasonable to houserule this sort of synergistic benefit in. If I were writing a new set of abilities from scratch, it would make sense to stack...
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    so much for those toe shoes adverts

    Somewhat oddly, I was seeing a personal trainer as part of a rehab plan and was told to wear shoes for all my strengthening and aerobic exercises, even indoors. I thought this was rather odd, and I did not adhere to it. Maybe they'd have recommended differently for a healthy person, but I always...
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    so much for those toe shoes adverts

    An odd part of the running business is that the majority of running footwear is purchased for uses other than running. In the case of the Vibrams, I would guess that their utility in other athletic activities is very high.
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    so much for those toe shoes adverts

    That's probably true. The biomechanics of running are surprisingly complicated. The whole idea of barefoot pushing one towards a lighter and more natural stride is not necessarily implausible. To me, the jury's still out on the science of it. I had many satisfied customers and while some of...
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    Nondetection (or similar) on a Galleon.

    Stormwrack has Sails of Displacement (120,000 gp). It's a different spell, but the purpose is not entirely similar and both are 3rd level spells. I'd say that's a reasonable baseline.
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    Pathfinder 1E So what do you think is wrong with Pathfinder? Post your problems and we will fix it.

    Trailblazer is somewhat of a greater departure from 3e. Examples are: changed iterative attacks, a new system for combat reactions that combine AoOs with blocking and dodging, saving throws no longer associated with class, a more standardized magic system, spells and abilities limited by a 10...
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    so much for those toe shoes adverts

    The company's primary business was, and remains, making soles for other types of shoes. And frankly, the amount of this settlement is probably not huge on their scale. I picked up on this development because I was actually right at the heart of this whole business. I worked at a running store...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simulation vs Game - Where should D&D 5e aim?

    Indeed. People forget (or never thought about to begin with) how much of reality as we know it is embedded in rpg rules. There are certainly things in those rules that aren't the way reality works, but those are the exceptions. 3e represents starvation as hp damage, and there are various psionic...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simulation vs Game - Where should D&D 5e aim?

    While that's a valid point, Challenge Rating is one of two things: it's either redundant with the concept of level or it isn't a valid measure of anything. I tend towards the latter view.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simulation vs Game - Where should D&D 5e aim?

    You might know who ordered someone's murder in a petulant rage or arranged it as a political assassination, but certainly most of these deaths are not honorable, and in many cases the character getting killed isn't aware of or involved in his own death. It's a far cry from the D&D notion of a...
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    The Niche Protection Poll

    That can be positive, but it's a patch. The way D&D awards damage doesn't really reflect skill that much, and rogues really shouldn't be the one exception. In some cases it isn't enough. But getting multiple sneak attacks is not that hard. The whole TWF thing that 3e introduced gets cheesy. It's...
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    GAME OF THRONES #6:The Laws of God and Men ACT 45 Chapter 4-2014

    Yes, but it seems to me that before this plan was conceived, he knew he wasn't going to get a fair trial, so if the option was there for trial by combat, he ought to have invoked it the moment he entered the courtroom. If the rules are the same as they were during his last trial, he can throw...
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    The Niche Protection Poll

    The idea of bonus dice also makes things much less swingy. Triple or quadruple damage was scary, and this was in addition to the potential for critical hits. Moreover, while backstab rewarded base damage, SA actually deemphasizes it. This is good for halfling rogues, but in fact is really too...
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